2025 CSC Academic All-America Volleyball Team

Johns Hopkins' Simone Adam and Helena Swaak and Gettysburg's Mary Huegel have been honored on the 2025 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America Volleyball Team, as announced Tuesday. Adam and Swaak received first team honors while Huegel was a third team selection. 
 
With Adam's and Swaak's selections, Hopkins has now produced 12 CSC Academic All-Americans in program history. Adam becomes the sixth Blue Jay to earn first team honors and just the second to receive the distinction twice, joining Natalie Aston (2020, 2021). Swaak is now one of five Blue Jays to earn CSC Academic All-America recognition multiple times. All 12 selections in program history have come since 2018, with nine earned since 2021.
 
Adam earned her bachelor's degree in computer science and posted a 3.76 cumulative grade point average. She adds her second First Team Academic All-America honor to an impressive 2025 resume that also includes First Team AVCA All-America, AVCA Region V Player of the Year, First Team AVCA All-Region, First Team All-Centennial Conference and Centennial Conference Player of the Year honors.The outside hitter led the Blue Jays with 3.58 kills per set and 380 total kills while hitting .316 on the season. She added 27 service aces, 293 digs (2.76 per set) and 59 blocks, including 11 solo. Adam posted double-digit kills in 23 matches this season and concludes her career ranked second in program history with 1,482 kills and seventh in hitting percentage (.297).
 
Swaak graduated with a degree in public health studies and a 3.99 cumulative grade point average. Her First Team Academic All-America selection complements a 2025 season that also saw her earn Second Team AVCA All-America, First Team AVCA All-Region and First Team All-Centennial Conference honors. The setter finished the season with a conference-leading 653 assists, averaging 5.78 assists per set. She also contributed 214 kills, a team-best 45 service aces, 357 digs (3.16 per set) and 68 blocks across 113 sets. Swaak ranks fourth in program history with 3,356 career assists, ninth in service aces (165) and 12^th in digs (1,026).

Huegel is the 32nd Bullet all-time to earn Academic All-America honors and the first-ever volleyball player. On the court in 2025, the middle blocker claimed her first first-team all-region nod after back-to-back honorable mention honors and was an honorable mention All-American. A three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (CC) performer, she started all 26 matches in which she played and led the team with 104 total blocks. She recorded five or more blocks in eight matches and had at last one in 24 matches. She also contributed 180 kills and 28 aces. For her career, she holds the program record for block assists with 356 and has the most blocks in the rally scoring era in program history with 444.

The 2025 CC Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Huegel has been a regular on the Dean's List as well as being involved in numerous campus organizations, including as vice president of Sceptical Chymists, Director of Academic Affairs and Director of Alumnae Engagement for Alpha Delta Pi and Order of Omega. She has been a teaching assistant in organic chemistry and a BOMBS Peer Mentor. She worked for residential education as an RA and was an X-SIG Summer Researcher.
She has a 4.1 cumulative grade-point average through the fall semester.